spoken by the Kuki-Chin-Mizo peoples.

Phonology

The set of 23 Zou consonantal phonemes can be established on the basis of the following minimal pairs or overlapping words. Besides these 23 Phonemes, 1 consonant is a borrowed phoneme (i.e. /r/), which is found only in loan words, in very rare cases (e.g. /r/ in /r?n/ "color"). Along with these consonants, Zou has 7 vowels: i, e, a, ?, o, u, ?.

Orthography

Vowels

* a - [a]
* aw - [?]
* e - [e/?]

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